British Grand Prix 2009, Saturday

Today's qualifying session saw Fernando Alonso and Nelson Piquet qualify in 10th and 14th places respectively for tomorrow's British Grand Prix at Silverstone.

FREE PRACTICE 3

Nelson Piquet: 18 laps, P13, 1:20.232 on lap 17
Run 1: 6 laps, new hard tyres
Run 2: 6 laps, new hard tyres
Run 3: 5 laps, new soft tyres, change to front springs

QUALIFYING

Nelson Piquet, P14, 1:19.392
Q1: 1 run on new hard tyres, 2 runs on new soft tyres
Q2: 2 runs on new soft tyres

Nelson: "The car felt good at the start of the session and we had improved it since free practice, but something didn't feel right at the rear of the car at the end of Q2 and so I had to abort the lap. I would have liked to have been a bit higher up, but we needed a couple of extra tenths to make it into Q3. Tomorrow will be a tough race as it's difficult to overtake here, but with a good start and strategy we could challenge for some points."

Pat Symonds, Executive Director of Engineering
"The car looked very good this morning on fuel loads similar to those run in third qualifying, but unfortunately this afternoon we haven't met our expectations. Something broke at the back of Nelson's car towards the end of Q2 which we are still investigating."

UPDATE
Nelson had a problem with the rear damper during Q2. The suspension didn't work properly.